Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Alan Young]

Alan Young wrote:
> Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
>> Alan Young wrote:
> <snip>
>>>
>>> The test iso booted ok on my DP264.  It looks like it found all the
>>> hardware and loaded drivers ok.  If you need more info, let me
>>> know.  Maybe the problem only affects certain platforms and/or
>>> hardware???  :-\
>>
>> The kernel used for installation is UP one, that is why it worked.
>> Only SMP kernel doesn't work (at least the one we are trying to use).
>>
>> Thank you for test,
> 
> Oh, that's not a good test at all now is it? :)
> 
> I pulled down the kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4axp.src.rpm that was
> mentioned elsewhere in this thread and recompiled it.  It crashed.
> I was able to capture a log and a traceback on the serial console.
> It is attached below.  Hope this helps more...
> 
> Alan
> 
<crash log snipped>

I've done some random testing and I was not able to identify the
cause of the crash.  However, I did find something that does work.
I tried a newer Fedora Core 4 kernel.  I compiled 
kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.src.rpm for SMP and am able to boot it on
my 2 CPU DP264.  Perhaps AlphaCore should move up to that kernel?

Alan